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Contracting Relationships are good for the customer as well as the seller
While The majority of my work experience was accumulated working for IBM, I have more than a decade of experience as the sole proprietor of an independent contracting business. Since my retirement from IBM leaves me with medical benefits it is advantageous for any other potential employer to work with me on a contracting basis to reduce their benefit costs and compensate me to the maximum degree allowed by tax law.
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Government service depends on delivering a trusted relationship
2 years at NIST .  Served as team lead for operations and maintenance of a system to track and issue badges for NIST Associates who maintain work relationships at the NIST campus.  Prior to that, I developed requirements for a web-based enhancement of the system that NIST uses for tracking the arrival, departure and vetting of non-employee Associates.  This system, built on Oracle uses a proprietary (HandySoft) workflow and electronic forms technology.  I also completed a demonstration project for NIST Human Resources (HR) to automate the export of personnel data to the mainframe database at USDA National Finance Center to record HR actions.  As a concept demonstration, I developed a requirements spreadsheet for HR actions which could transform field mappings into an Oracle /PL-SQL code generator to assure correctness of data transforms and simplify maintenance.

4 ½ years at IRS  Served as team lead for data capture on Custodial Accounting Project (a multi-terabyte DB2 data warehouse) at IRS.  Architect/lead developer of Extract and Transform sub-system to load IRS Individual Taxpayer Master file (IMF) into a DB2 data warehouse.  Responsible for software infrastructure, design of critical system interfaces and development tools.  Exercised skills in, DB2, IBM architecture, JCL, SyncSort, operations planning, job scheduling and data modeling.  This system has many parallel tasks in order to accommodate the customer's high weekly data volume and throughput requirements.  I developed a unique approach to attain high quality though tools that automate coding and generate JCL.  Created about 35,000 SLOC (40% of a 7-person team) of assembler code.  This contract consistently received award fees greater than 95% from a tough customer.

5 years at CIA Worked as a data analyst and software developer.  Developed data model, PL/SQL stored procedures and functions to perform access control access within a terabyte Oracle database of classified and compartmented documents and files.  Designed, configured and built cross-platform message methods for controlling access to sensitive information using MQSeries queues, ProC procedures and PL/SQL packaged functions.
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Small businesses provide agile services for government with good budgetary controls
My experience as an employee and contractor with small business allowed me to participate in a variety of work with the United States government without becoming a government employee directly.  I was able to quickly become part of a project team and share my expertise to advance the work of the projects.  The nature of the business relationship did not prevent me from being reviewed and vetted for security clearance at the highest levels.  This gave me an opportunity to demonstrate my ability to work with and protect sensitive information while continuing to enhance our government's abilityl to do its job.  At the end of each project I was free to continue developing my own technology skills to prepare for the next opportunity or to transfer the skills that I had learned to another significant problem.
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The best software requires an understanding of people as well as technology
My research resulted in development of a calendar system demonstrating group scheduling for resources and events for executive presentation using a System/370 mainframe-based prototype and PC-based user interface prototype.  IBM filed 6 invention disclosures for publication based on my calendar database organization and user interface.  I also developed several workstation-based user interface prototypes for business and executive demonstration.  One of those was presented as a prototype Stock Broker's Workstation at the Securities Industry Association trade show in 1982 and became the basis for an IBM/Merrill Lynch joint product development venture.
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Successful corporations use tested and repeatable methods for major product development
Retired from IBM after as Advisory Programmer after a 25 year career.  There I gained extensive experience in the product development life cycle with 4 IBM divisions including DPD (Finance Industry), Research, Communications Products and Applications Systems. I shared a major award as one of 7 team leaders for the design and development of IBM's premier system for check processing and proof-of-deposit in commercial and Federal Reserve banks (CPCS). This system is the backbone of daily check clearing for the largest banks in the United States. The technologies included IBM System/370, MVS, System/370 Assembler, magnetic ink character recognition (MICR), optical character recognition (OCR) and microcoded controllers.

My activities included developing requirements, conducting customer focus sessions to validate and prioritize product strategy, objectives and requirements.  My project managing experience included estimating schedules and developing plans.  I coordinated translation and testing of translated products in 6 European languages and 3 Asian languages. My administrative experience included organizing a multi-site council (across 3 company divisions) to coordinate technology exchange and develop marketing positions for IBM document processing products.  My product areas included WYSIWYG document formatting; Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML); OCR as part of ImagePlus Intelligent Forms Processing.
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